Process of producing color-filled embroidered designs on textile fabrics



Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

PETER GOULED, OF WEEHAXVKEN, NEW JERSEY.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING COLOR-FILLED EMBROIDERED DESIGNS (1N TEXTILE FABRICS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER GOULED, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Vveehawken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Process of Producing Color- Filled Embroidered Designs on Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the art of embroidery, and has particular reference to a process of producing embroidered designs on textile fabric and color-filling the area within the design in a manner that is most expeditious and which is, moreover, capable of the best possible results.

Another object in view is to provide means whereby a stencil of the color-filled area of the design may be reproduced in any length or quantity desired.

One of the methods heretofore used to obtain the colored area in embroidered designs has been to use the pantograph embroidering machine for producing the outline of the design to be applied to the fabric, on heavy paper or cardboard, the said outline then being cut to form a stencil. By this method it was necessary to attach the heavy paper or cardboard to a backing cloth in the pantograph machine, to set the needles to make the outline of the design on the cardboard, and after the backing cloth and cardboard had been removed from the machine, to reset the needles in their original positions for working the design in the fabric to be embroidered. This method required a skilled workman to operate the pantograph to produce the stencil. The present method seeks to do away with the use of the pantograph for producing the outline of the design on the stencil and providesv means whereby stencils may be made from the original, in any length or quantity desired and at a much less price than the stencils produced by the pantograph machine.

In the practice of my invention I employ or resort to a succession of steps all of which, considered severally, are more or less familiar in other relations, to manufacturers of designs of embroidery, which, when oper ated in a complete process in the art of producing colored areas in embroidered designs, I believe, involve a new and meritori- Application filed .Tu1y 31, 1925. Serial No. 47,372.

ous process. Furthermore, the results obtained by the same are much more satisfactory, can be produced much more rapid ly, easily and cheaply, and without the use of skilled workmen to produce the stencil.

Considered briefly, the steps in my process consist in forming or stitching the design directly on the fabric to be embroidered, producing an outline of the design upon thin, diaphanous paper, making a stencil of the color-filled area by the use of the diaphanous sheet, painting the color-filled area on the fabric by use of the stencil, and

finally embroidering the design and the edges of the colored areas.

In the first step in my process I make the outline of the design on the material to be embroidered. This may be accomplished by spanning the material in an embroidering machine and stitching or forming the outline thereof in any preferred manner. After the outline of the design is applied to the fabric the next step consists in placing a sheet of paper thereupon which is'prefen ably thin, diaphanous paper, so that the design may be seen through the same. The outline of the design upon the fabric is then made to appear in a contrasting color upon the face of the paper by rubbing colored crayons over the surface thereof. This paper or tracing is then removed from the fabric and is used in the third step in my process to make the stencil for painting the colored areas.

The stencil of the areas to be color-filled may be made in any desired manner, from the paper or tracing so formed. This may be accomplished by puncturing the outline on the paper or tracing with a series of small holes spaced at short intervals, in a perforating machine. This paper is then applied to a blank stencil consisting of a relatively stiff sheet of paper of any desired length. Finely ground powder, such as chalk or the like, is then sifted thereupon, and by rubbing the hand over the surface of the paper the chalk is caused to pass through the openings and to form the outline of the design on the blank stencil. The outlines on the blank stencils are then cut out, thereby forming a stencil of the areas of the embroidered design to be color-filled. The perforated paper can then be applied to another portion of the blank stencil, to

make a stencil of any desired length, after which the-- stencil may be out; into any" lengths'suitable for easy handling of the same. At the same time the perforated paper may be preserved for future use,

In the fourth step tliear'eas'Within at embroidered designs arecolor-filled by the use of the stencil. To color-fill the areas, the stencil is applied to the fabric in the embroidering machine, the openings in the stencil mating with the areas Within the design stitched on thefabric. are-then of Y a' brush, after which the stencilis re moved and applie'd to' another portionof' the fabric, until the painted areasare appliec to the entire length of fabric'. The" design complete thedesign.

Having: thus describedniy'iiiveii'tion, I

claim:

1; The process of producing combined color fille'c'l and embroidered" de'si gii 'o'n fab ric, consistingin producing an outline of the design on the fabric tobeeinbroidered, making a tracing of tlie outline; making a stencil of the' areastobecolor-filled, from said tracing, paintin'g 'the 'areas to be" color filled, on said fabric, by the use'of said sten- These areas painted any desired color, meaii's filled, "by" the use of said perforated tracingi painting the areas to be color-filled on said fabric, by the use of saidsteneih'and em broidering said fabric.

a The process" of producing a combiiiec'l colOfifilledafid' embroidered design on fab ric, consisting 1 in forii'i'iii'g' an outline of the design" on the fabric to be eii'ibroidered,

the outline originally formed on inakiiig a aper traciiig -of the" outline so formed, perforating" the outline on sai d tram ing, passing con'iminute'd material through the said perforations 111- said tracing in con tact with a shee't of heav paper, cutting out-the areas so foii'ii'ed onsaid' heavy paper tof'orin a stencil, painting the areas to be color-filled on said fabric b {the use o'f said stencil, and embroider' ng tie -oiitlin'es o'riginally produced on said fabric.

PETER" GOULED. 

